Garment-hook.



F. E. DE LONG. GARMENT HOOK.

APPLIGATIONI'ILED MAR, 1909.

Patented Jan.25, 1910.

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pair era trier oiaiaic FRANK E. DE LONG, OF PHILADELYHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO THOMAS DE Q. RICHARDSON, OF GERIVIANTOWN,PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA.

GARMENT HO OK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. DE LONG, of the city of Philadelphia andcounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Garment-I-Iooks, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings.

My present invention is an improvement upon that set forth in LettersPatent No. 864L231, granted to me under date of August 27th, 1907, andhas for its object the disposition of the ends of the wire, from whichhooks of this character are formed in such manner as to present noprotruding part which would be objectionable under the conditions ofuse.

Hooks of the general type described in my said former patent are usuallyemployed in connection with loop eyes of wire, but since these are incommon use and may be of any character, I have not deemed it necessaryto illustrate the same.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1, represents a perspective view ofa hook embodying my invention. Fig. II, is a View of the rear orunderside thereof. Fig. III, a longitudinal section on the line III,III, of Fig. II, and Fig. IV, is a transverse section on the line IV,IV, of Fig. II.

The general type of the hook is of the well-known character, comprisinga bill 1, thread eyes 2, and 3, respectively, and a shank composed ofthe parallel members 10, and 13. Combined with these features is araised element 1, (sometimes called a hump and located between the shankand the bill in such relation as to permit the passage of the loop eyeunder definite and positive pressure, directed lengthwise with theshank, but to prevent accidental disengagement of the loop eye underordinary circumstances. These features being well understood need not befurther described.

In forming hooks of this character from a single piece of wire, it isfound that serious objections may arise from exposure of the free end ofthe wire, particularly with relation to the raised element or hump. Anyprojection of such end in certain regions is liable to catch indifferent objects, such as the loop eye itself, or portions of the garment or threads, and the tendency is to exaggerate the projection sothat it may be- Speeification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22, 1909.

Serial No. 484,938.

come very objectionable. The purpose of the present invention is toobviate the diliiculty just referred to.

In order to indicate the exact character of the structure, it is mostconvenient to trace the course of the wire, commencing at one threadeye, which comprises one terminal point of the wire. The wire co1nmencesat 5, in the inner re 'ion of one thread eye 3, (in this instance theone indicated at 3) and after being bent around to form said eye, it isprojected downwardly and raised as shown at 6, to form one portion ofthe hump 4. It then descends and is bent to form the loop 7, whichembraces the lower extremity of the shank, returning upon the oppositeside in a raised portion 8, which constitutes the other half of the humpat. It then descends toward the general plane of the shank, and is bentto form the thread eye 2, at whose extremity it is bent abruptly asindicated at 9, and prolonged as shown at 10, to form one half portionof the shank of the hook. After passing through the loop 7, the wire isbent to form the bight at 11,, thence extends upward and is returned,forming the bill 1, and is bent rearwardly in correspondence with thebend at 11, to form the other portion 12 of the bight. It then isprolonged as shown at 13, to form the other portion of the shank, parallel to the part 10.

It will be noted that the parts 10, and 18, are inclined slightly withrelation to what may be termed the median line'of the hook, so that thefree end 15, of the wire lies practically in said median line, insteadof to one 1 side thereof, being located under the line of contactbetween the two thread eyes, and this free end 15, ispreferably beveledas shown in the drawings. By this construction the back of the shank maybe made practically flat, the extremity of the wire of the thread eye 8,lying, however, slightly out of plane of the shank proper, in order thatsaid free end may abut against the side of the wire at the commencementof the rise (5.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A garment hook formed of a single con tinuous piece of wire, comprisingthread eyes; a bill; a shank having a lateral inclination with respectto the median line of the blll; a raised portlon lntermedlate betweenthe shank and the bill having a loop Patented Jan. 25, rain.

Which embraces the lower portion of the shank; one of the terminals ofsaid wire being arranged at a thread eye, the other terminal of saidWire lying in a plane beneath the thread eyes and symmetrically Withrelation to the line of contact between them.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at PhiladelphiaPennsyL Vania, this nineteenth day of March 1909.

- FRANK E. DE LONG.

Witnesses:

J AMES H. BELL, E. L. FULLERTON.

